Types

Gardens decorated with rocks, usually a wide variety of multicolored and differently shaped rocks.

Caves, sheltering overhangs, or other naturally occurring protected areas in the living rock that are or were used as shelters or dwellings by humans, other hominids, or animals.

Public exhibitions of skill and competition that may include the riding of unbroken horses or bulls, roping of calves, wrestling with steers, and a round-up, which is the driving together of cattle in order to separate, count, inspect, or mark them. Public exhibitions of skill and competition that may include the riding of unbroken horses or bulls, roping of calves, wrestling with steers, and a round-up, which is the driving together of cattle in order to separate, count, inspect, or mark them.

Amusement park rides having a gravity train that moves along a closed loop on a sharply winding trestle built with steep inclines that produce sudden speedy plunges for thrill-seeking passengers.

Buildings with large unobstructed spaces specially surfaced usually with hardwood or another smooth durable material for roller skating.

Steel mills where, usually hot, metal is passed between rollers to produce steel of a prescribed thickness or cross-sectional form.

Gardens, situated on rooftops, typically in urban areas above private houses or commercial buildings. The depth of soil is limited to keep the weight low and the plants are usually set in tubs or similar containers, but elaborate roof gardens have been constructed with small pools and beds.

Areas located on the roof of a building, usually flat areas that are accessible to inhabitants of the building.

Houses, sometimes family homes or other relatively small buildings, that offer for a fixed fee apartments or rooms and sometimes meals. Rooming houses typically differ from boardinghouses in that a rooming house offers fewer amenities and less social contact with the family or other operators. However, in nineteenth-century American usage, the term may overlap in meaning with "boardinghouses."

Cellars, partially or wholly underground and usually covered with dirt, where root crops and other crops are stored.

Long, usually narrow, buildings or spaces in which ropes are made, generally by spinning fibers into yarns, twisting yarns into strands, and twisting three or more strands into rope; usually producing rope for marine and seafaring industries and often located at or near seaports. Distinct from "roperies" which are used generally for any type of rope-making plant housed in any type of structure or space.

Flower gardens in which a majority of beds are designated for the cultivation of roses.

Circular windows containing patterned tracery, particularly stained glass windows that are divided into compartments by mullions radiating from a center, or filled with tracery suggestive of the form of a rose or wheel.

Motif in the form of a stylized rose with petals radiating from the center, or for similar circular ornaments having a design radiating from the center.

Round buildings, especially those that are round both outside and inside and covered by domes.

Generally refers to large round rooms.

Historic barn design that flourished between the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States and Canada. Round barns were built in a variety of shapes: octagonal, polygonal, or circular.

Circular stone towers which taper toward the top, have a conical stone cap, four to five internal floors, and an entry door high above the ground; common in Ireland, associated with churches, and probably built between the 10th and 12th centuries.

Circular buildings for housing and repairing locomotives.

Urban dwellings attached in a series of three or more. For individual freestanding urban dwellings use "town houses."

Palaces for royalty, especially a monarch, usually grander in scale than other palaces and including accommodations for the royal court and its officers.

Residences built for or inhabited by royalty.

The remains of buildings or groups of buildings that have been destroyed or are in a state of great disrepair or decay.

Outdoor sports and recreation spaces, usually an extended oval in plan and having special surfacing and markings, designed for foot racing; for similar recreation spaces indoors, use "indoor tracks."

Specially prepared surfaces on an airfield for the taking off and landing of aircraft.

Narrow projections of the stage extending out into the orchestra pit or the audience seating area, used by performers and fashion models.

Settlement areas characterized by country life or agriculture.

Communities, usually small in size, located outside urban areas in isolated or undeveloped areas.

The use of a lot or parcel of real property for farming or agriculture.

Small buildings that house educational facilities, built in sparsely populated nonurban areas to provide public, usually elementary, education to local residents. Use when emphasizing the function or location of such buildings; when emphasizing the small size or form of some early examples, prefer "one-room schools."